NURSES AND T.B.
"ASSERTION TOO SWEEPING."
DISEASE IN THE FAMILY? (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. "That is too sweeping an assertion," declared the Marlborough Hospital Board's medical superintendent, Dr. T. Julian, in commenting on a circular from .the women's division of the Farmers' Union requesting hospital boards to investigate the cause of so many young probationary nurses contracting tuberculosis. The superintendent maintained that local experience definitely proved that nurses who contracted tuberculosis had T.B. in the family. All nurses were instructed as to the necessary precautions to take against contracting the infection.
"There is less chance of contracting tuberculosis in a hospital than out of one," the superintendent asserted. He added that throughout the Dominion there were numerous cases of the disease which were never notified.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 10
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